Peavey Revalver 4?

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2015/12/02 22:47:13 (permalink)

Peavey Revalver 4?

I still haven't found any great deals for guitar related software so, what about Revalver? Anyone use it? How does it stack up? I don't play metal, so I'll be hoping for other tones. Is the usb dongle thing a pain?
I looked and since I have Revalver V.III (or whatever it's called) I qualify for the $49.99 upgrade. I'm a S-Gear user and I'm happy with it and Amplitube, but I want more guitar stuff. Call it gas or collecting...I'm guilty.

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    gmon72
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/02 23:48:04 (permalink)
    FYI Plugin alliance deal of the day is bass dude for 49 today.

    I have revalver. It has some nice sounds. Usb dongle hasn't proven to be a pain thus far.
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 00:32:36 (permalink)
    It's not to bad, I haven't used it much for ages, fire it up every now and then, and shut it down just as fast. Best thing is to give it a whirl, it has good effects and it sounds fine, you can get good sounds/tone from anywhere from clean to heavy and anything in between, it's got a reasonable amount of tweakability. I would put it ahead of the likes of S-Gear 2 and Amplitube, and there in lies the rub, your opinions on those 2 are different to mine, so . . . Best thing is to try it out for yourself, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, it's yours and only your opinion that matters.
     
    But Revalver 4 is most certainly a solid amp sim. The basic Revalver 4 'app' is free, not sure what comes with that if any, I just brought the lot when it was released.
     
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    ReValver 4 Modules included for Free

    • ValveKing and Custom Lite Amp Modules
    • RIR 2 Lite Cabinet Modeling Module (3 x cabs, 3 x mics, multiple mic positions)
    • Lite Green and Tremolo Stomp Boxes
    • C-verb Lite Effects Module
    • Audio Stream splitter
    • ACT Content (1 x Acoustic Bundle, 2 x Electric Pickup Bundles, 4 x Output presets)
    • Access to the Amp Store for an ever growing selection of new modules, cabinets and ACT Content
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 15:15:52 (permalink)
    It doesn't seem too popular.
    post edited by clintmartin - 2015/12/03 20:29:25

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 19:25:14 (permalink)
    HATE their authorization. Will never use it.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 19:46:49 (permalink)
    I have been using R4 this whole year. I like it. I have a lot of the add ons as well. 
    It is responsive and I can get good tones for blues and rock with my Strat. 
    The put a lot of effort into it. 
    You can also use any 3rd party VST's with it (I bring up Vahalla for example).
    I got it for $49.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 19:57:58 (permalink)
    Rimshot  
    You can also use any 3rd party VST's with it (I bring up Vahalla for example).




    Now there's a selling point. I wish Amplitube did this. I've been asking for years.
     
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 21:22:11 (permalink)
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    It doesn't seem too popular.




    Yes and no, as has been mentioned above, there are a lot of people that despise it's protection, doesn't bother me, and had no issues with it, light years better than something like iLok IMO. Also the NFR goes against the grain for a lot of folk. I looked into it, and although you can sell or give away anything you like, to sell or give away Revalver 4 (perhaps any NFR product) there is a certain amount of personal information which 'could possibly' become available to the receiver because they would basically be inheriting your account, personal details, CC info etc, so I thought it not in my best interests, and a hassle.
     
    There are however many people who swear by it, and of course popularity does not equal good, just take EDM for one :) Revalver 4 is not bad by any means, and it is better than a lot IMO, it just doesn't hit the mark for me as some other products do. I have told myself I wont be upgrading it again, but when the time comes I probably will as it's usually only $100 or so, and who knows the next version might grab me, I doubt it though, but if it does all well and good.
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 22:51:47 (permalink)
     
    It does have some cool ideas such as being able to load vsts anywhere in the signal path. Very cool feature. Could be unstable but broadly worked ok. Running Amplitube and Guitar Rig inside Revalver at the same time is crazy cool.
    I used to like the way you could load effects between the power and eq sections like a real guitar effects loop. That was another great feature, but they seem to have dropped that - just as Amplitube adopted it.
    Effects are really great.
    Sound wise you needed to tweak eq to control hiss, but no more than any other amp sim.
    All amp sims seem to exaggerate hiss too much - why?. None of my real guitar amps produce that much hiss at room volume. Even the Valve King which is directly modelled in the software.
    I thought it had the edge on Amplitube 3. Cant comment on yet on Amplitube 4.
    I still dont think any ampsim has quite nailed that pushing air with a Quadbox speaker sound yet.
    Price wise revalver is good value
    All dongles suck. 
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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/03 23:24:33 (permalink)
    Well I bought it. It was only $49.99 so...why not.
    I agree with everything FZ1 has said in the above post about amp sims in general, but for me...S-Gear is clearly the best one out there right now.
    Revalver 4 has some interesting things that will be fun to explore. The VST loader has been hit and miss, but my Valhalla stuff works.
    I'm just getting familiar with how everything works right now. I'm not sure which usb device it's been tied to. That just kind of happened on it's own. I thought it would ask which one I wanted, but I assume it went with my soundcard...who knows.
    I'll play around with it more in time. My first impression is it's well worth the $49.99. I haven't played through any of the amps in real life so I don't know where to start really. It will take some time to find the amps and speakers combinations I like.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/05 11:43:45 (permalink)
    I'm starting to really like Revalver 4. It's cool when get to thinking..."I wish it had this or that" and you remember you can load in any vst you want. I'm using Valhallavintageverb and TDR Nova within Revalver and it sounds very good. I'm not sure about the ACT thing yet. I let it sample my Strat and then applied the Standard Les paul to it and set the blend around 50%...pretty cool stuff.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/05 16:17:27 (permalink)
    Don't forget the Amp Store, have a browse, some nice stuff to be had there. Forget his name, but some dudes Bass stuff worked quite well from memory, abd there is a lot of nice amps, cabs, pedals and effects to be had. If you end up getting along with the ACT stuff there is also a good range of input and output ACT stuff.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/05 18:22:47 (permalink)
    Yeah, I'm just getting into the ACT stuff. It's pretty interesting. A funny thing. The wife and I just happened onto a Duran Duran concert on Netflix the other day (she's a big fan). John Taylor has a nice sounding bass. There is some ACT stuff from him in there I may check out.
    I'm about to watch some youtube videos on ACT and see if I can learn something.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/05 21:54:05 (permalink)
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    Well I bought it. It was only $49.99 so...why not.
     
     My first impression is it's well worth the $49.99.




    So you must have owned v3dot5 then ? yeah well that would make it an almost no brainer.
     
    One thing I forgot (and I'm sure you are all over it) is the tweaking to be had down at the amp component level/schematics, I liked the old 3dot5 tweaking better than 4, seemed more intuitive/easier, I would just mainly mess around with valves and bias etc, but it gives noticeable results, and sometimes can help get you to where you want to be if you are close but not quite there.

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/06 00:35:04 (permalink)
    I was looking for the tubes in the Peavey Valve King and couldn't find them (I do know where the schematics are)...I may have to read the manual at some point! Hahaha. There is definitely a ton of toys for the tone tweaker in Revalver 4.
    Yes I did own III.V, but I hardly ever used it. Probably a mistake on my part as I'm almost sure R4 will be my high gain amp sim. $49.99 for the Producer's Pack was a steal.
     

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    Re: Peavey Revalver 4? 2015/12/06 01:32:05 (permalink)
    If you right click on the Amp the schematics should be in the drop down list.
    And while you are in the right click menu on the Amp, have a look at the other stuff, you'll have impedance stuff and quality settings etc.
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